Remembering Patty Ann

12:17 PM,
Feb. 20, 2013

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My cousin, Patty Ann Dunn, died in the wee hours of last Wednesday morning. She did not "go gentle into that good night" as Dylan Thomas warned, but rather took his advice that "Old age should burn and rave at close of day."

Now that she is gone, the memories of her last weeks of survival are beginning to fade and stronger, better memories of times spent with her are taking their place.

Pat always was my movie buddy. When we were kids, our parents used to drop us off at the Warner Theater in Ridgewood nearly every Saturday for a double feature, some great Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies cartoons and ...